I remember going to a Firefox 1.0 release party at Dragonmead brewery near Detroit and meeting a bunch of local nerds from IRC and various LUGs. A party with s

I remember going to a Firefox 1.0 release party at Dragonmead brewery near Detroit and meeting a bunch of local nerds from IRC and various LUGs. A party with strangers just to celebrate the release of a browser we didn't get paid to promote or develop. I feel like the era where people were passionate about open source as a goal in itself has really waned in recent years. Maybe because a lot of the major battles were won, or because more companies are realizing that open source is a logical business choice in a lot of cases. Or maybe it's just rosy retrospection at play and I've just become jaded.